Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing · Ohio

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster

Wooster, OH · ~401 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster: 2.2 TCR = 68% of Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster safety composite

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster: 2.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.0 in 2021 to 3.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Wooster, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #25/42
  • PHOTO Buckeye Internationa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~401 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buckeye International Inc - Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster averages 2.2 TCR (68% of the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster TCR series: 2021=2 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster falls in its industry

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 42 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid employers in Ohio.

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster (401 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster
GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster (401 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

GOJO Industries, Inc. - Wooster has more employees than the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) ma median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.2 2.1 12 0 0
2023 2.3 2.0 9 0 0
2022 1.4 1.1 5 0 0
2021 2.0 1.3 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · OH · Wooster

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Buckeye International Inc - Corporate 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR M. Schneider Soap & Chemical Co., Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuBois Chemicals, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aloe Vera of America,Inc- Dallas 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Johnson Welded Product, LLC 401 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1911 401 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1812 401 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navarre Plant 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scaheffler Transmissions LLC 1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR LuK USA LLC 1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schaeffler Transmission LLC 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of Wooster 771 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1746 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Denison Dry Ice Plant 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vpet USA LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 5411 - Midland 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Luling La 401 FTE
NAT-SIZE ESAB Denton 401 FTE
NAT-SIZE QBP-Central 401 FTE
NAT-SIZE FR 401 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.